RE: Identification of a Victoreen VX96

["Wesley" <wesvanpelt@att.net>]

All,



I believe it Ni-63 which was plated onto one or both electrodes in the

diode. They are glass "tubes", i.e., electronic components. 



(I was RSO for the decontamination of the old Victoreen building on Woodland

Avenue in Cleveland where they were manufactured.)



Wes 



Wesley R. Van Pelt, PhD, CIH, CHP

Radiation Safety & Environmental Radioactivity

Wesley R. Van Pelt Associates, Inc.





Subject: Identification of a Victoreen VX96



Dear all;



We recently found some devices that are glass tubes (about 1" tall and 1/2"

in diameter, with two connection wires extending from the bottom).  The

tubes were labeled as radioactive.



The devices are also labeled "Victoreen VX-96 1000 6540" on the side of the

tube.  Inside the tube there are two small disk like metal cylinders,

parallel to one another, connected to the wires (it looks like it might be

some type of diode).  It arrived in a storage box labeled "neon lamps."



There are no detectable gamma dose rates (measured with a micro-R meter on

contact).



Do any of you have any idea what these devices are?  Any idea what the

isotopic content might be?



Jim Barnes, CHP

james.g.barnes@att.net

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